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Proclamations
Index of Proclamations issued by the Mayor and City Council

Note: List contains proclamations issued beginning September 10, 2013 through Present.
List may not be all inclusive. For questions please contact the Mayor's Office or sponsoring Councilmember.
Contact information for the Mayor and City Council may be found on the City Council Roster webpage.

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Proclamations: 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013

2021 Proclamations

Date	Subject
January 19, 2021	Roe vs Wade
January 26, 2021	Mary Webb
February 23, 2021	Alfred Twu
February 23, 2021	HelpBerkeley
March 9, 2021	Troy Duster
March 23, 2021	Berkeley Mutual Aid
March 23, 2021	Meals On Wheels
March 30, 2021	Maia Small Day
March 30, 2021	Dolores Huerta Day
April 20, 2021	Dmitri Belser
April 20, 2021	National Victims Rights Week
April 27, 2021	Michael Cooper
April 27, 2021	Judy Hunt
May 11, 2021	Affordable Housing Week
May 25, 2021	AAPI Youth Rising
May 25, 2021	Elder Abuse Awareness Month
June 1, 2021	Mary Lee Widener
June 1, 2021	Carole Kennerly
June 3, 2021	1947 Partition Reembrace Day
June 15, 2021	Arnie Passman
June 15, 2021	Police Review Commission
July 13, 2021	2021 Cal Move Out Coalition
July 13, 2021	Plastic Free July
September 28, 2021	Berkeley Firefighters and Camps Staff - Echo Lake Camp
September 28, 2021	Loren Jones
October 12, 2021	Indigenous People's Day 2021

2020 Proclamations

Date	Subject
January 21, 2020	Hampton Smith
January 21, 2020	Raquel Pinderhughes
January 21, 2020	Roe vs Wade
January 28, 2020	John McNamara
January 28, 2020	Young Musicians Choral Orchestra
February 11, 2020	Gene Lavon Smith
February 11, 2020	Mansour Id-Dean
February 11, 2020	Richard Ellison
February 25, 2020	Raymond Nat Turner
March 10, 2020	Nolan J. Coleman
September 22, 2020	Ecology Center's 50th Year Anniversary
December 1, 2020	Carl C. Anthony and Dr. M. Paloma Pavel
December 1, 2020	Barbara Brust
December 1, 2020	Pam Grossman

2019 Proclamations

Date	Subject
January 22, 2019	Mahealani Uchiyama
January 29, 2019	Max Dreskin
January 29, 2019	Roe vs. Wade
February 26, 2019	Jerome Solberg
March 12, 2019	College and Career Week
March 12, 2019	Dan Sawislak
March 12, 2019	Victoria Legg
March 26, 2019	March for Meals 2019
March 26, 2019	Susan Muscarella
April 2, 2019	KPFA 70th Anniversary
April 2, 2019	Parkinson's Awareness Month
April 7, 2019	National Victims Rights Week
April 17, 2019	Annual International IRDP Conference
April 17, 2019	NAMC National Association Minority Contractors
April 17, 2019	Stacey Hoffman
April 23, 2019	Osha Neuman
April 23, 2019	Holocaust Remembrance
April 23, 2019	Avril Chavez
April 23, 2019	Axel Disston
April 23, 2019	Maya Curry
April 23, 2019	Mekhi Crossland
April 30, 2019	Mental Health Month
April 30, 2019	Suitcase Clinic
May 7, 2019	Alexander Wilfert
May 7, 2019	Hung Huynh
May 7, 2019	Linda Rugg
May 7, 2019	Nuha Khalfay
May 7, 2019	Sophie Bandarkar
May 8, 2019	Melany Amarikwa
May 14, 2019	Affordable Housing Week
May 14, 2019	Juneteenth Festival Day
May 14, 2019	Brian Fitch
May 15, 2019	Conscientious Objectors and War Resisters Day
May 16, 2019	Mama Washington
May 19, 2019	National Public Works Week
June 11, 2019	Susan Hodge
June 11, 2019	Hannah and Friends Bike-A-Thon
June 11, 2019	Joleen Ruffin
June 12, 2019	Donald Evans
June 15, 2019	Centennial Celebration of the Berkeley Lions Club
June 25, 2019	Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
June 25, 2019	Elder Abuse Awareness Month
July 9, 2019	Anil Thapa Buddhist Art Center
July 9, 2019	Rosenda Thomas
July 16, 2019	Ari Neulight
July 16, 2019	Eddie Young, Jr. and James Chester Young
July 23, 2019	Christine Schwartz
July 23, 2019	Empress Vintage
July 23, 2019	Kelly Hammargren
July 23, 2019	Susan Duhan Felix
September 10, 2019	Berkeley Film Foundation
September 10, 2019	Dr. Reverend Robert L. McKnight, Sr.
September 24, 2019	Berkeley Free Clinic's 50th Anniversary
September 24, 2019	Emmaline Campbell
September 24, 2019	Indigenous Peoples Day 2019
September 24, 2019	Sandy Bails
October 15, 2019	Jacqueline Omania
October 15, 2019	Leslie Ewing
October 29, 2019	Carlos Baron
October 29, 2019	Domestic Violence Awareness Month
November 12, 2019	Miriam Klein Stahl and Lena Wolff
November 12, 2019	Ray Yep
November 19, 2019	Dru Howard
December 3, 2019	Berkeley High School Girls Tennis Team
December 3, 2019	NAACP Youth Council
December 3, 2019	Starry Plough
December 10, 2019	Cheeseboard Musicians
December 10, 2019	Stuart Baker

2018 Proclamations

Date	Subject
January 23, 2018	Daniel Maher
February 13, 2018	Michael Lerner
February 27, 2018	Center for Early Intervention on Deafness
February 27, 2018	Winston Burton
March 27, 2018	American Red Cross Month
March 27, 2018	Greenlining Institute
March 27, 2018	Beats Antique
May 1, 2018	Affordable Housing Week
May 1, 2018	Berkeley Path Wanderers Association
May 1, 2018	Indra's Net Theater Company
June 12, 2018	Flora Russ Day
June 12, 2018	Marty McCutcheon Day
June 12, 2018	Amateur Radio Week
June 26, 2018	Daniel Galvez
June 26, 2018	Elder Abuse Awareness
June 26, 2018	Tajmal Payne
July 10, 2018	Pathway Project Volunteers
July 24, 2018	Sue Li Jue
July 24, 2018	Frank and Louise Brown
September 13, 2018	Freight and Salvage
September 13, 2018	Monteverde School
September 25, 2018	Bisexual Pride and Bi Visibility Day
September 25, 2018	Coille Hooven
September 25, 2018	Startup Grind
October 2, 2018	Indigenous People's Day
October 2, 2018	Judith Scherr
October 16, 2018	Natan Kuchar
October 16, 2018	Disaster Preparedness Fair
November 13, 2018	African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council
November 13, 2018	Biofuel Oasis
December 11, 2018	Judith Montell Day
December 15, 2018	Berkeley High School Black Studies Day

2017 Proclamations

Date	Subject
January 24, 2017	Dorothy and Robert Bryant
February 14, 2017	Roe v. Wade 44th Anniversary
February 14, 2017	Linda Tillery
February 14, 2017	Luna Dance Institute
February 28, 2017	Government Alliance of Race & Equality (GARE) Cohort
February 28, 2017	Library Whistleblowers
February 28, 2017	Alicia Nelson
March 14, 2017	Marian Diamond
March 28, 2017	924 Gilman
March 28, 2017	Katherine Harr
March 28, 2017	American Red Cross Month
March 28, 2017	Koichi & Hiroko Tamano
May 30, 2017	Berkeley High School Boys Tennis Team
May 30, 2017	World Music Festival 14th Anniversary
May 30, 2017	Frances Rachel 100th Birthday
June 13, 2017	Amateur Radio Week
June 13, 2017	Elder Abuse Awareness Month
June 13, 2017	Berkeley High School Girls Softball
June 13, 2017	Juneteenth Festival Day
June 27, 2017	Healthy Homes Month
June 27, 2017	Dorothy Day House
June 27, 2017	First Presbyterian Church
June 27, 2017	Chaz Bundick
June 27, 2017	Elisa Cooper
June 27, 2017	Charles Austin
August 25, 2017	Hate Free Weekend
September 12, 2017	Poet Laureate: Rafael Jesus Gonzalez
October 17, 2017	Share-N-Getty Day
October 17, 2017	Camp All Souls: Called to Justice
October 17, 2017	Honoring Berkeley First Responders on Hurricane Operations
October 31, 2017	Richie Smith
November 14, 2017	Pacha Day
November 14, 2017	Dr. Naomi Quinonez
November 28, 2017	Tom Kelly
November 28, 2017	Berkeley Humane
November 28, 2017	Berkeley First Responders in the North Bay Fires
December 19, 2017	Hung Liu

2016 Proclamations

Date	Subject
January 26, 2016	Marilyn Pursley
February 10, 2016	Berkeley Rotary Club 100th Anniversary
February 13, 2016	Frances Towne
February 26, 2016	Betty Reid Soskin
February 29, 2016	Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
March 8, 2016	Holocaust Remembrance Day
March 15, 2016	Berkeley City College Black Student Union
March 15, 2016	Zachary Fernandez
March 15, 2016	60th Anniversary of HOWL
March 29, 2016	Berkeley Aquatic Staff
April 4, 2016	Dan Kammen
April 5, 2016	10th Anniversary of the Berkeley Project
May 6, 2016	Linda Collins
May 10, 2016	John Oliver Simon
May 10, 2016	Father George Crespin
May 10, 2016	Affordable Housing Week
May 10, 2016	Berkeley High Boys Basketball Team
May 24, 2016	Pepper Spray Times 25th Anniversary
May 24, 2016	Police Week 2016
May 24, 2016	Berkeley Film Foundation
May 24, 2016	Ruth Bossieu
May 31, 2016	Elder Abuse Awareness Month
May 31, 2016	Bridging the Military-Civilian Divide Day
May 31, 2016	2016 Berkeley World Music Festival
June 14, 2016	Public Works Department
June 28, 2016	W. Kamau Bell
July 19, 2016	Chaparral House
July 19, 2016	Captain Cynthia Harris
July 19, 2016	Raz Kennedy
July 19, 2016	Trina Ostrander and Bayer Healthcare
September 16, 2016	S. Nzingha Dugas
September 20, 2016	Halcyon Commons 20th Anniversary
December 1, 2016	Austene Hall
	Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum's 50th Anniversary
	East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
	Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
	Recognizing the Ohlone Peoples
	Urging the EBRPD to Honor Ohlone Indigenous Rights and Protect Ohlone Place of Origin Sacred Site
	Honoring the Shellmond Indigenous Sacred Site
	Endorse Upgrading the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to a Convention
	Implement UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as Municipal Policy

2015 Proclamations

Date	Subject
January 17, 2015	Deborah Louise Greene
January 27, 2015	Rare Barrel
February 24, 2015	Eleanor Shapiro Day
February 24, 2015	Ralph Benson
March 17, 2015	Armenian Genocide 100th Year Anniversary
March 18, 2015	Marthe Cohn Day
March 24, 2015	Chaparral House
March 24, 2015	Maplight
April 7, 2015	Lester Chambers Day
April 7, 2015	National Public Safety Telecommunicator’s Week
April 14, 2015	Susie Medak Day
April 23, 2015	In Dulci Jubilo
April 25, 2015	Brian Fitch Day
April 25, 2015	Bay Area Hispano Institute for Advancement 40th Anniversary
April 28, 2015	Municipal Clerks Week
April 28, 2015	Affordable Housing Week
May 2, 2015	Young Entrepreneurs at Haas 25th Anniversary
May 12, 2015	Historic Preservation Month
May 12, 2015	Eduardo Pineda Day
May 12, 2015	Public Works Week
May 12, 2015	Salvation Army Oakland Garden Center Corps
May 15, 2015	John Muir Elementary School Centennial
May 16, 2015	Rafael Jesus Gonzales Day
June 9, 2015	Linda Williams
June 9, 2015	Stephen Kent and the Berkeley World Music Festival
June 12, 2015	Ashby Village
June 23, 2015	Dr. Jose M. Ortiz
June 23, 2015	Amateur Radio Week
June 23, 2015	Berkeley-Sakai Girl Scout Exchange
August 13, 2015	Berkeley Barb
September 23, 2015	Bisexual Pride & Bi Visibility Day
October 10, 2015	Indigenous Peoples Day
November 15, 2015	Berkeley Times 5th Anniversary
November 17, 2015	Cal in the Capital Day
December 12, 2015	Frankie Lee Fraser

2014 Proclamations

Date	Subject
January 8, 2014	Suzy Thompson
January 14, 2014	Dr. Thomas W. Browne
January 23, 2014	Frank Staggers Hypertension Screening & Education Sunday
February 23, 2014	Dalai Lama
February 25, 2014	American Red Cross Month
March 4, 2014	Women's History Month
March 8, 2014	Luna Dance Institute
March 11, 2014	Dr. Marilyn Wong
March 11, 2014	Maia Scuipac
March 11, 2014	Diana Russell
March 11, 2014	Diane Davenport & Sayre Van Young
March 14, 2014	Charles Robinson
March 15-26, 2014	Zero Waste Week
March 25, 2014	Crowden School
March 25, 2014	Berkeley Public Library Month
March 25, 2014	Cesar Chavez
March 28, 2014	Keith Carson
April 1, 2014	Holocaust Remembrance Day
April 1, 2014	National Public Health Week
April 1, 2014	Faye Carol
April 8, 2014	Jane McCoy
April 15, 2014	Kathy Chew
May 10, 2014	Denise Levertov
May 18, 2014	Jewish Community Foundation of the East Bay
May 25, 2014	The Possible Day
June 1, 2014	Dr. Herbert Wong
June 3, 2014	Urban Shield
June 8, 2014	125th Anniversary of First Baptist Church
June 10, 2014	Berkeley Fire Science Program: BFD and Berkeley Firefighters Local 1227
June 11, 2014	95th Anniversary of the Berkeley Lions Club
June 12, 2014	David Fogarty
June 22, 2014	Berkeley World Music Day
June 24, 2014	Amateur Radio Week
July 8, 2014	Postal Heritage Day
July 8, 2014	Helen Farnsworth
July 8, 2014	Keiko Nelson
July 28, 2014	Dr. Charles Townes
August 16, 2014	Honey Bee Awareness Day
August 22, 2014	Robert Hicks
August 31, 2014	Peter Neufeld
September 28, 2014	Berkeley Partners for Parks
October 7, 2014	Sandhya Sood
October 7, 2014	Berkeley CERT Fair Planning Team
October 19, 2014	Ron Penndorf
October 21, 2014	Gamelan Sekar Jaya
October 21, 2014	John Tucker
October 26, 2014	United Nations Association 60th Anniversary
October 31, 2014	Malcolm Margolin/Heyday Press
October 31, 2014	Berkeley Patients Group

2013 Proclamations

Date	Subject
September 17, 2013	International Assistance-Dog Week 2013
September 17, 2013	Roger Dillahunty Day
September 21, 2013	29th Annual Shoreline Cleanup Day
September 21, 2013	BOSS Ursula Sherman Village Program
September 24, 2013	Keter Salon Expansion
October 1, 2013	Perry and Stier Day
October 1, 2013	Zeke Gerwein
October 3, 2013	Transgender Law Center Day
October 5, 2013	Indigenous Peoples Day
October 10, 2013	Emma Turner
October 11, 2013	National Coming Out Day
October 15, 2013	Chana Bloch
October 23, 2013	Berkeley High School Class of 1963
October 29, 2013	Rosa Parks Elementary Mock Trial
November 18, 2013	Jose Ortiz Day
November 19, 2013	Marc Silber
November 19, 2013	Jones, Stallmeyer and Guiten-Bella
December 3, 2013	John Toki

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